Profitable Poultry Keeping on a City Lot: $297; 00 a Year From Twenty-Four Hens (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1332217877 ISBN 13: 9781332217878

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

Synopsis

Excerpt from Profitable Poultry Keeping on a City Lot: $297; 00 a Year From Twenty-Four Hens

I contracted the poultry fever by reading alluring advertisements in poultry journals and magazines. These advertisements and the fact that I needed the money, finally brought the fever to an acute stage, and I became so enthusiastic over the large profits to be made, as per advertisements, that my family could no longer resist the proposition, and we decided to embark in the poultry busi ness at the earliest possible moment.

We knew little or nothing about the care and treat ment of poultry, except the information we had gained by reading books on the subject. These dealt with the matter only in a general way, and made the business seem so easy and success so certain that we did not think our lack of practical experience any serious handicap. As is generally the case with the beginner, we did not think it was necessary to start from the bottom and learn the many details of the work. We wanted to get rich quick ly; so naturally, we had to start on as large a scale as possible. Had we been able financially, we would prob ably have bought a large number of adult fowls; but our circumstances would not permit this, so we concluded to get an incubator and a brooder, and to hatch three or four hundred chicks the first season and raise them to maturity. This, we figured, would give us a good foun dation upon which to build our future success.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1332217877
• ISBN 13: 9781332217878
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 65